| Van Perkins Winder | |
|---|---|
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| Born | June 3, 1809 Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi |
| Died | November 8, 1854 Schriever, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | yellow fever |
| Resting place | Nashville City Cemetery |
| Occupation | Planter |
| Spouse | Martha Grundy |
| Children | Carrie Winder McGavock |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Jones Winder Harriet Handy |
| Relatives | Felix Grundy (father-in-law) |
Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809 – 1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.
Early life
Van Perkins Winder was born on June 3, 1809, in Natchez, Mississippi. His father was Dr Thomas Jones Winder (1772–1818) and his mother, Harriet Handy (1786–1820). He was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Littleton (1605–1654).
Career
Winder acquired the Ducros Plantation in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1845. That same year, he purchased slaves from Thomas Butler.
Personal life
He married Martha Grundy, the daughter of a judge, Felix Grundy. By 1860, she owned 202 slaves and 4,550 acres of land.
Death
He died of yellow fever on November 8, 1854, at his Ducros Plantation in Louisiana. He was buried at the Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee alongside his wife.
References
- ^ WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com
- ^ Nashville City Cemetery
- ^ Matthew Montgomery Wise, The Littleton heritage: some American descendants of Col. Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654) of Northampton Co., Virginia and his royal forebears, Wentworth Printing, 1997, p. 346
- Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60
- Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268
- William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2006, p. 141
- Chapter 11: "War Hawk" in J. Roderick Heller, III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010
- Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 221
- Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
